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Cancer Pain Management in Resource-Limited Settings A Practice Review英文文献资料
HindawiPublishingCorporation
PainResearchandTreatment
Volume2011,ArticleID393404,6pages
doi:10.1155/2011/393404
ReviewArticle
CancerPainManagementinResource-LimitedSettings:
APracticeReview
ElizabethNamukwaya,MhoiraLeng,JuliaDowning,andEllyKatabira
DepartmentofMedicine,SchoolofMedicine,MakerereUniversityCollegeofHealthSciences,P.O.BOX7072,Kampala,Uganda
CorrespondenceshouldbeaddressedtoElizabethNamukwaya,liznam2002@yahoo.co.uk
Received1October2010;Accepted14September2011
AcademicEditor:HowardS.Smith
Copyright?2011ElizabethNamukwayaetal.ThisisanopenaccessarticledistributedundertheCreativeCommonsAttribution
License,whichpermitsunrestricteduse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperly
cited.
Painincancerisacommonandburdensomesymptomwithdi?erentcausesbutinasigni?cantnumberofcasesitisundiagnosed
andundertreatedbecauseoflackofskillsforitsassessment.Painhassigni?cantnegativeimpactonthepatientand,therefore,
itneedstobemanagedurgentlyandappropriately.Inresource-limitedsettings,thereareseveralbarriersandchallengestopain
managementbuteveninthesecircumstancespaincanbewellmanagedwithplannedandinnovativeuseofresourcesandifthe
WorldHealthOrganizationpublichealthsystemapproachisusedtoensureopioidavailability.
1.Introduction
Painunrelatedtothecanceroritstreatmentisofsigni?cant
importance in resource-limited settings, where the burden
of HIV/AIDS is high and, therefore, patients might have
HIV-associated malignancies and their pain may be due
to the HIV or associated opportunistic infections and/or
antiretroviraltreatment.
Pain in cancer patients is one of the most feared and
burdensome symptoms [1] and is often undertreated [2].
In a recent systematic review, the prevalence of pain was
foundtobe64%inpatientswithadvancedandmetastatic
disease, 59% in those on anticancer treatment, and 33%
in those who had been cured of cancer [1]. In Africa, the
prevalenceofcancerpainrangesfrom35.7%to87.5%with
theprevalencebeingmorethan70%inmostofthestudies
[3–9].Thishi
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